Two Solutions, Zero Challenges

ClusterStor L300 Storage System
The ClusterStor L300 storage system is an all-HDD Lustre solution. It achieves performance requirements with the lowest number of HDDs, enclosures and racks by maximizing the performance of each storage device. The use of all HDDs makes it well suited for environments using a few applications with large, sequential I/O workloads.

ClusterStor L300N Storage System
The Cray ClusterStor L300N storage system is a hybrid SSD/HDD solution with flash-accelerated NXD software that redirects I/O to the appropriate storage medium. It delivers cost-effective, consistent performance on mixed I/O workloads while shielding the application, file system and users from complexity through transparent flash acceleration.

Cray® View for ClusterStor™

Storage System Monitoring Application

Slow and inefficient job performance, lost productivity, too much time searching for answers with cumbersome diagnostic tools and logs, and not enough time for analysis — these are the challenges administrators face every day when trying to understand and diagnose storage performance problems. Adding to the frustration is a lack of visibility into what applications are doing to the system, which makes optimization all but impossible without specialized tools. What administrators — and ultimately users — need are quick ways to isolate performance problems and visibility into what applications are doing all the time.

Cray® View for ClusterStor™ was designed to address these challenges. As the industry’s first complete Lustre® storage performance analysis application, Cray View for ClusterStor enables administrators to get the insight they need to maximize their resources, optimize system throughput, and provide users with the best results and experience. With Cray View for ClusterStor, you have all the information at your fingertips, from a single view, to identify storage performance issues whether they’re from application inefficiencies, a busy system, or another systemic issue that impacts applications. With always-on metrics, Cray View for ClusterStor moves these problems from the realm of black magic to practical application. After all, if you can’t measure it you can’t improve it.

Cray View for ClusterStor includes:

Job Runtime Variability: Real-time and historical views of data to help you understand what is impacting user jobs

Event Correlation: A unified view of the system, providing administrators with the ability to correlate systemic events that impact performance

Trend Analysis: Data-driven analysis and visualization from historical data can help identify trends that can then be used to shape changes to the system

Alerting: Threshold engine enables customized alerts based on any metric

The easy-to-use View for ClusterStor interface and visualization capabilities provide always-on insight into what applications are doing, without impacting performance. With detailed visibility into how resources are utilized by applications, administrators are finally enabled to make impactful optimizations

The result? Faster time to resolution, improved productivity, elimination of bottlenecks, and better overall performance.

Cray ClusterStor storage systems balance the value equation by providing enterprise-level performance with more capacity, fewer drives, less IT support required, and more access to data — all of which leads to the lowest TCO.

High-performance computing (HPC) is growing rapidly — and so is the amount of data that needs to be accessed and stored. Are you investing properly to make sure your HPC storage system can handle it, now and in the coming years?

This ebook is designed to help you understand the differences between the different types of storage — parallel, object and network attached storage (NAS) — in order to identify what is best for your budget and the performance you need … today and in the future.

High performance computing (HPC) is at the center of modern life sciences research. From genomic sequencing to large-scale genomic analysis to precision medicine, HPC plays a critical role in advancing many life sciences disciplines.

The oil and gas (O&G) industry has been undergoing fundamental changes in recent years. While declining oil prices have taken a toll, shifting regional demands and increased adoption of alternative energy are also affecting the industry in terms of profitability and business viability. All of these movements are pushing companies to speed discovery, explore new and alternative fuel sources, and invest in efficient technology in both upstream and downstream phases by using the most cost-effective approach. To better compete, the O&G sector must adopt new technologies and methodologies to improve yield and achieve better operational efficiency.

High performance computing (HPC) plays a critical role in transforming manufacturing by accelerating innovation and establishing a competitive advantage. Consider this: 40 years ago airplane design was typically done by manually drawing the blueprints and laborious physical tests. New generations of airplanes often took years to come to the market. Today, most aerospace design work is done with simulation software such as CAE and CFD applications. This is possible thanks to the maturity of the modeling software, as well as the availability of HPC compute and storage systems that can run those parallel applications effectively.

Sept. 25, 2017 -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced it has completed the previously announced transaction and strategic partnership with Seagate centered around the addition of the ClusterStor high-performance storage business.

ClusterStor

Alliance Technology Group, LLC

Alliance Technology Group is a North American systems integrator & IT solutions and services company. Alliance specializes in IT infrastructure, storage, systems, networking, physical security and cybersecurity.

Meadowgate Technologies

OCF

OCF creates high-performance computing, storage and data analytics that truly meet your needs. With OCF’s experience in high-performance computing and managing large-scale data challenges, their creative solutions could be just what your company is looking for.

Penguin Computing

Penguin Computing is a leader in developing open, Linux-based cloud and HPC solutions. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of products, from Linux servers and workstations to integrated, turnkey HPC clusters and cluster management software.

Scalar

By understanding your technology challenges in the context of business goals, Scalar works collaboratively to define a strategy aligned to both sides and deliver effective, practical and creative solutions.